The American Mind’s Weekly Digest

FEATURES

Weekly Features present varied responses from notable commentators on a single theme, often prompted by a longer essay.

The Contested Origins of Order

The Editors

What holds societies together within regimes that can last? Sovereigns? Believers? Invisible hands? Samuel Gregg, Aaron Sibarium, Dan McCarthy, and Samuel Hammond respond to Adrian Vermuele’s critique of liberalism’s answers.

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Minerva Has Left the Building

Colin Chan Redemer

The era of wisdom on campus is over.

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DISCOURSES

Discourses include shorter posts and column-style writings that engage the national conversation as it unfolds.

Athens and Jerusalem, Rome and America

Gunnar Gundersen

Ours was the only political founding to reconcile classical and Christian life.

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Why Super Mario Mac & Cheese Matters

Spencer Klavan

There’s a kind of remembering only humans can do.

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The “Cultural Identity” Scam

Spencer Klavan

How media elites deploy woke tropes to smear rural Americans.

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ESSAYS

Essays of the Week are original, longer essays on an important topic.

Social Justice is Academia’s New Theology

James Lindsay

Sokal Squared showed the West’s learned elite has succumbed to a corrupted creed.

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The Rethink We Need to Avoid America’s Collapse

Robin Burk

Connecting the dots of complex systems breaks the conservative impasse.

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PODCAST

Tune in! In this new edition of The American Mind podcast, host and Claremont Institute President Ryan Williams sits down with Mollie Hemingway, Senior Editor at The Federalist, and Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, to discuss their new bestselling book, Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court.